A whole scheme of work that could last for a term based around justice and freedom. Focuses on different religions and was designed to be a transition unit from year 6 to 7 for RE. Includes learning intentions and success criteria, suggested teaching ideas and activities for each lesson. Ideas for both AT1 and AT2 learning.

This is an English 4 week unit of work based on the book ‘Wonderscape’ for the last half-term for year 6. It is focused around transition activities and planned in the way that children will learn English at secondary school. It includes starters, spellings, main teaching, differentiated activities and plenaries. There are some resources included. I have smartboards for each unit but I can’t upload them due to copywrite. If you purchase this unit and would like them, please leave your email address in the comments and I will email them all to you.

This English unit of work runs over 6 weeks and is based around the book ‘Stories from the Silk Road.’ It is the best way that I have found to enliven the topic ‘Islamic Civilisations’ and ensure that children learn deeply about it and this year, we taught it online, so it works well remotely. The plans include starters, main teaching, activities and differentiation, and I have uploaded all of the worksheets that I made to go alongside the unit. I can’t upload the smartboards due to copyright laws, so if you buy the unit and want these, leave me a comment with your email address and I can send them over to you.

This is a whole English lesson on the perfect progressive tense, aimed at year 6. It includes a smartboard with definitions and worked examples and a worksheet to practice this tense with answers and a differentiated sheet for children working below the year group. It’s hard to find anything on the internet for this part of grammar which is why I created it! I have also exported and uploaded the smartboard as a PDF in case your do not have notebook software.

This is a knowledge organiser for World War II. It includes a basic timeline, key vocabulary, leaders and a map of the allies and axis (I’ve had to delete the image as I don’t own it but it’s easy to find one on the internet!). I’ve also uploaded a differentiated one for SEND children. This can be used as an assessment guide, but also for parents and children to learn some basics about WWII at home.

This resource is for years5/6 whole class guided reading. It focuses on a different skill each day and includes answers. It’s made a real difference to the level of reading in my class. You will need to download the poem ‘Talking Turkeys’ online, but it’s easy to find for free. The idea is to teach the skills and then take away the support a bit more each day so that by Friday, the children work independently.

Perfect for planning and teaching whole class guided reading - comprehension skills. The question stems are based around the KS1 and 2 SATs and are broken down into the different skills that children need to learn and different question types that appear in comprehensions. They are perfect for helping teachers to plan questions in reading and they include greater depth question stems. The reading answer stems give children sentence starters for answering the questions and are split into the different types of questions such as inference, retrieval, vocabulary etc.

Templates that you can use across the whole school for planning, teaching, recording and assessing group guided reading. Includes a page of question stems to use and pages to plan questions and record children’s answers on. Also includes the reading curriculum for each year group to help teachers focus in on key stems.

Full set of planning for writing horror stories based on the graphic novel and the novel Silverfin (young bond) by Charlie Higson. Fully differentiated with starters that link to grammar and resources to go with the lessons. The unit explores the features, language and structure of horror stories using the text and then culminates in the children writing their own horror story using the first few pages of the graphic novel Silverfin. Especially great for getting reluctant boys engaged!

A medium term plan for learning about World War II. It includes full lesson plans; differentiation for greater depth and SEN children; learning objectives linked to the NC; activities for the children to do including cross-curricular writing and examples of resources, such as books and websites, that can be used in lessons to support learning. It runs alongside my RE unit about the Holocaust, which you can purchase from my author page. They could be put together as one big History unit.

A unit of work that could last a term for years 5 or 6 based around the 5 Pillars of Islam. Included are learning intentions, success criteria, suggested teaching points and ideas for activities. Lots of scope for teaching and learning through AT1 and AT2.

RE unit of work to introduce year 1 or 2 children to who Christians believe Jesus was through his parables. Includes learning intentions, teaching points and suggested activities. Lots of AT1 and AT2 learning and active tasks such as drama.

Two weeks of English planning based on the book Rose Blanche. This is an amazing picture book that is perfect for children learning about World War II. It has a lot of pictures in it and so is perfect for EAL children. It also contains lots of inference (show and not tell) and really helps them to develop their vocabulary. The plan includes starters, main activities, differentiation, learning intentions and success criteria.

Four weeks planning for the book Street Child. Works well when combined with the Victorians topic. Includes starters, main input, activity ideas, key questions and plenaries.

A full 2 week set of lesson plans for biographies in which the children explore and write their own biography based on the life of Scrooge. Great Christmas unit! Includes starters, grammar, main input and activities, resources and plenaries. Also includes differentiation and a planning sheet.

A great assembly that I used to introduce my school’s health week in which the children had to guess how much sugar was in each drink and then we looked at what too much sugar can do to the body. All information is on the powerpoint and it’s ready to use.

Fantastic resource if you are leading staff training on how to plan English lessons. Includes the 3 stages of planning and how to plan the whole unit, including immersion in texts and producing good-quality writing at the end. Includes ideas of text types to plan for in each key stage and ideas for activities and making English fun.

This is a great resource if you are leading any training on whole class reading. It gives you ideas about how to teach the skills for reading and how to set up comprehension questions for a text based on different a different skill each day. It also includes resource ideas, a break-down of each day and how to build in reading for pleasure.